Parenting By The Clock: The Best-Interest-of-the-Child Standard, Judicial Discretion, and the American Law Institute’s “Approximation Rule” by Dr. Richard A. Warshak http://www.warshak.com/store/cr43.html Clinical Professor of Psychology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Overview “Parenting by the Clock” is a scholarly paper authored by the well-regarded Richard Warshak. [1] Having scanned the original it is […]

Prompted by what might be considered ill-considered comments and misleading analysis by Nebraska based psychologist John Rosemond, the following is a riposte by Dr. Linda Nielsen who as professor of Adolescent and Educational Psychology at Wake Forest University is surely better placed than most to comment . John Rosemond’s article appeared in the “Lincoln Nebraska Journal […]

McIntosh address to the APA conference in Melbourne, Aug 2014 “Young Child & Infant Development – Piloting a New FDR Intervention “ [FDR – family dispute resolution] “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer” is probably the best known of Machiavelli’s many instances of prima facie logic inversions. Machiavelli’s teachings, that much […]

Our children’s blighted lives Taken from ‘The Sunday Times’, Feb 1st 2009 http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5626687.ece The biggest investigation into childhood paints a startling picture of lives blighted by violence, drugs and broken homes. Daisy Goodwin looks at her own loving family and finds even she could do better Forget the economic crisis for the moment, we British […]

under construction 49 Australia SP – latest data. by Robert Whiston When Australia adopted shared parenting as its new regime for ‘custody allocation’ after separation it was with an eye to forestalling any counter-attack by radicalised feminists who had made it plain they would never accept such a situation, and notwithstanding that such feminists were […]